Reference

1 Corinthians 5:11

But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
9

I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:

10

Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.

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But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.

12

For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within?

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But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.

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Drunkenness Condemned
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Drunkenness Condemned

The verse does not explicitly condemn drunkenness as an act in itself, but rather instructs believers to disassociate from someone who is *a drunkard* (a person characterized by drunkenness). The condemnation is of the *person's behavior pattern*, not the act of drinking or being drunk in isolation.

Mixed / Contextual Application

This verse provides a clear and absolute directive to avoid association with individuals exhibiting specific behaviors, without suggesting any partial continuity or situational application of principles. The instruction is a direct prohibition, not a nuanced guideline.